Greengrid and the datacenter

February 28th, 2007 • Related • Filed Under

http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/02/26/HNgreengrid_1.html

The IT industry’s thirst for energy is growing exponentially, far outpacing the supply of reliable, clean power. Now a group of leading IT firms has banded together to try to head off an impending energy crisis in the datacenter.

Eleven enterprise heavyweights including Microsoft, IBM, Sun, HP, Intel, AMD, Rackable Systems, and VMWare announced Monday that they have formed a non-profit group called The Green Grid to drive new metrics, technology standards, and best practices for curbing power consumption.

Robust growth in the IT sector and in companies’ use of technology is leading to an acute power shortage, according to analyst firm Gartner. Half the world’s datacenters will run out of power by the end of 2008, Gartner estimates. That means companies face swelling utility bills as they struggle to keep their servers cool and humming.

Very cool, I hope that it can start aiding CIO’s and datacenter hosting organizations in working out better datacenter design for the future, and what small changes can be made to either the infrastructure or the datacenter to be more energy efficient. Being energy efficient is good for business, and remember it’s part of your corporate and social responsibility and is related to your carbon footprint.

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  1. Comment by Stephan Schildberg on 28 February 2007:

    We need new metrics, although in few years time we have to adapt these metrics again.

    You have to save energy, recyle the heat for other purposes and you can switch today to renewables, or even better to a bunch of decentralized energy sources.

    We, from ecologee.net, trace those ISP’s who aim towards these aim. Check this site and then choose your new provider –> http://www.ecologee.net/pmwiki.php/Endanwender/%dcbersichtDer%d6ko-ISPs

    Stephan Schildberg,
    ecologee.net

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